I have been fortunate to engage in a wide variety of work – as a political scientist and quantitative scholar teaching at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Virginia; as a data scientist engaged in applied work with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service; as a researcher bridging applied and academic interests often with community partners; and as a consultant and leader creating UVA’s StatLab and envisioning and building out a Data Science Services team in the UVA Library.
I’m currently the Director of Research Data Services and the Social, Natural, and Engineering Sciences in the UVA Library, where I lead an amazing team of statistical and computational consultants, data curation and data discovery librarians, research software specialists, and subject librarians.
And I’ve been grateful to find many generous and creative partners along the way who’ve invited me to be part of collaborative work. Current partners include:
In the last five years, my interests have taken a sharp turn towards using data science to promote accountable governance, make visible racial and other social inequities, and impact public policy and movement building. More importantly, I hope I’m mentoring the amazing young people I get to work with at UVA to engage this work early in their careers.
Also, sometimes I play the mandolin, pretend I’m learning to play the banjo, and harbor a dream of joining a home-grown bluegrass band!
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